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Poor xymph, you will never grasp the pretzel-shaped political reality until you accustom yourself to describing the current slaves of power as "pseudo-Right-wing", as opposed to simply "Right-wing".
Rowan Berkeley |
06.30.06 - 8:00 am | #
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Whoa. 3 posts in one day. 6:04, 6:12, and 6:33. Bam, bam, bam. I love it.
Here are some statistics on Xymphie's productivity:
Post #2: 110 words, 8 minutes => 13.8 words per minute
Post #3: 136 words, 21 minutes => 6.5 words per minute
This suggests that the third post (the one about lying) took a little longer to write than the other ones. In fact it took precisely twice as long, which suggests that it was written over. So like a Michelangelo painting the painting we see is covering a hidden painting. What was the hidden painting about?
MJ |
06.30.06 - 12:06 pm | #
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What individuals in the msm do is try to decide what made them so good in the first place. So the presenters will emphasize certain traits and characteristics they made people look and listen to them in the first place. The writers will try harder, churning it out the way it was a few years before but only better this time. The graphics and audio effects will get sharper, but the message will always be the same. Mass produced, sugar-coated. pro-business, pro-family, neoconversative ideological perspectives about a small segment of current events.
This strategy can backfire eg. the grotesque Rita Cosby on Fox News who literally became an instant turn-off.
My favourite bits are the segways, when presenters waste everyone's time by pretending to freely discuss opinions of their own in a quasi-scripted manner, when really their supervisor told them to say it.
mumu |
06.30.06 - 7:08 pm | #
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stand by for another gee whiz moment - nasa is sending discovery back up today, peeling foam or no peeling foam.
Rowan Berkeley |
07.01.06 - 12:56 am | #
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At least we know, that mr. 'Berkeley' is no 'pseudo-right wing'. He's the real thing for sure, as is these trolls trying to destroy any serious debate anywhere these days. All these provocateur people who must have something 'else' to do after 'the end' of the cold war, still being on the payrolls of the CIA etc. Poor things. It's hard work for authoritarians to be the ideological soldiers of a system they don't understand at all.
Brecht put it: "Fascism is socialism for idiots." Today, when socialism luckily is no longer in fashion, you could say fascism is liberalism is the medium is the message for idiots.
The forms in which mankind's fools destroys it's culture are less interesting than the few remnants of this culture.
It's better to read Thucydides than Berkeley, Olmert, Hitler, Bush or Blair.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
cartoo...1284262,00.html
"Captain WP Nevill of the 8th East Surreys was a complete ass. In the line in France, he liked to stand on a firestep of an evening, shouting insults at the Germans. Knowing that his men were about to participate in their first battle and keen to inspire, he had a wizard idea.
On leave in England, he bought footballs for each of his four platoons. One was inscribed: "The Great European Cup. The Final. East Surreys v Bavarians. Kick-off at Zero." Nevill offered a prize to whoever first put a ball into a German trench when the "big push" came.
Sure enough, when the whistles blew on July 1 1916, and 150,000 English, Scots, Welsh and Scottish soldiers climbed ladders to offer themselves to the German machine-guns, Nevill's footballers kicked off.
One of the few eye-witnesses to survive described watching a ball arch high into the sky over no-man's-land, on its way to the German trenches near Montauban. No winner collected Nevill's prize, however. Within minutes the captain was dead, as were most of his men."
Thucydides II |
07.01.06 - 9:05 am | #
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There is no hope for Yanks at all, if even the leftists are giving themselves phoney Greek airs now.
Rowan Berkeley |
07.01.06 - 10:13 am | #
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The trolls almost sound like auto-generated text. Footballs. Who would have thought.
MJ |
07.01.06 - 4:53 pm | #
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That is why I said he was a neocon, but he is obviously a leftist - the thing is the 'neocons' are themselves leftist hawks, who have simply adopted a culturally reactionary patter to deceive witless gulls like Bush. We ought to call them 'pseudo-cons'.
To the extent that jewish politicos are first of all jews, and only secondarily 'leftists' or 'rightists' , one should perhaps call all of them 'pseudo left', or 'pseudo right', as the case might be - you often can't tell them apart, as when they lambast the 'antisemites' in more or less identical terms.
To be a leftist politician in israel, you have to try to be even more 'anti nazi' than the rightist politicians, to cover your ass.
This is why one often hears politicos in the knesset calling one another fascists. It's all pretty menaingless, because it is all totally judeocentric.
Rowan Berkeley |
07.01.06 - 11:48 pm | #
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And predictable.
Hoarsewhisperer |
07.07.06 - 10:05 pm | #
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